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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the ... a LOT of television to pass the time. I could hum The Simpsons' theme ... weeks were great, I was making a little money, I got to listen to as much

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  this morning and wonder why you were rescheduled to a different location ... will be a public livestream on mit.edu to introduce her to the community ... she would get to know our (quirky, unique) students on a new campus, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk ... anytime I need just a few minutes of peace and quiet or when I need to clear ... getting to the end and realizing there is a piece missing. Now sometimes it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya's already told you about 6C, but I'll bet it didn't feature a giant spider on a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  18.600 poetry compute the probability i overuse the ampersand

  

  dedicated to 18.600, a.k.a. Probability and Random Variables, which I took this past semester. special thanks to: Brice H. ‘19, for your ... poetry that tries to incorporate math always comes off as cringe.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 25, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the ... Hey, did a Red Sox game just start? The dorm just shook and it sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  2005 in Review Being in college manages to teach you a lot of life ... is the worst grade to get. It means you were "this close" to an A- but ... that if I were to get a B+, I should have opted to do less work and get

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  find ways to drive action, create drama, all in a theatrically compelling ... classmates. It was ultimately liberating, I think, to have had a supportive ... questions to pose. Being simultaneously an MIT student and a writer is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I ... folks (1|2|3) and deferred folks (1|2|3). Still, I'd love to hear from you ... this job - so it's nice to know what you're feeling. Ben

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  Could Lie Tangent To Your Curves!" with 42,000 members, everybody loves a ... Mathematical Society Journal, with a link to the article below). Seriously, she even told it at a Harvard party that we went to, with an audience of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in a name mr. sushi - winner of the first annual name bryan's fish contest!

  

  In a close name contest between Groker and Mr. Sushi, Mr. Sushi edged out Groker in a 8 to 7 win, but remember we're all winners here. Katy, congratulations! I'll be in touch so you can redeem your prize.

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you want to know? Tell me something.

  

  I could say a million things about MIT and what it's like to be here ... interest to you. So if you don't mind, post some topics you'd like to hear about and I'll try my best to write about them over the next few entries.

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  From Charlottesville to Cambridge photos from a gathering for solidarity

  

  We're at a strange point in the political climate where white supremacists, klansmen, and outright Nazis have become comfortable enough to ... gathered yesterday afternoon to share some better ideas. 5:30 pm, Cambridge

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a ... to relax at the end of the weekend and learn a little more about films. On top of the movies every week, MIT gives RBA groups a lot of money to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  application process, and financial aid. And in order to have a good amount of ... 'm constantly trying to do a balancing act between telling the stories that ... announced to the crowd that the score was 2-0 in the second inning. That part

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  a dorm to me -- it's a living space that houses some of my most ... performing a birthday dirge, as opposed to a birthday song, where we stomp and ... excursion to Lobby 7, stands in a circle, and performs the birthday dirge. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT is Utopia Because the nice guys were here.

  

  a lot of fun. Then, yesterday night Wong Fu Productions came to MIT ... , so I was super excited that I got a chance to meet them. Be sure to ... The last 2 weeks have been such a whirlwind of activities. Last

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  collections of squiggly pencil lines. I won't lie: I'm going to be spending a ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts ... were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over ... // watched Qala a little too late and cried a little too much // cut my hair ... // dressed in pink to watch Barbie! with my sister // screamed to Speak Now

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and every one of you a fair chance is to read what you've presented to us, and ... yourself, we wanted to give you a little insight into what we're doing while

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020